Rachel Elizabeth Grimm , MFA

Rachel Grimm has taught high school, collegiate, and adult writers for eight years and is passionate about empowering writers with their work. She has over a decade of experience cultivating writing communities in a variety of roles, including serving as an editor of literary magazines, organizing literary events that unite local and community organizations with the college, and fostering literary learning in the online space through a popular writing blog with international reach. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Miami University, and her Bachelor of Arts in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis from Allegheny College. Her creative and pedagogical work has earned awards and honors including the Outstanding Graduate Student Award, a nomination for the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Teaching Award, and the Ione Sandberg Shriber Young Writer Award. She is currently at work on a speculative fiction novel about how to find joy in a world that can feel like a literal dumpster fire, the first pages of which were recently honored as runner-up by the SCMF-SWF Ohio Writers Scholarship.

MFA: Miami University Oxford, Ohio, 2021 (Creative Writing)

BA: Allegheny College Meadville, PA, 2015 (English with a Creative Writing Emphasis)

Rachel's creative and research interests include the contemporary novel and short story forms, hybrid and experimental storytelling, fabulism, identity literature, intersectional feminism, satire, environmentalism and ecofeminism, speculative fiction, assemblage theory, writing pedagogy, literary activism, and community education.